VAN VECHTEN, Carl. The Blind Bow-Boy. With a decoration by Robert E. Locher. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1923. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s cream buckram over patterned paper-covered boards, with attractive title label to upper spine. In the dust jacket designed by Locher. A very good or better copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Edges untrimmed, with brief ink gift inscription to front endpaper. A few light marks and dog-eared pages from haphazard cutting of the pages, but bright. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), closed tear along crown, a handful of smaller closed tears and tiny chips to extremities, the white segments of the jacket somewhat grubby, but a surprisingly well-preserved copy overall.
Van Vechten’s modernist dip into decadent 20s Manhattan, featuring an all-motley crew of eccentrics, freaks and oddballs, many of whom based on real-life characters from the author’s own colourful circle. Harold Prewett is thrust into the Big Apple on his dad’s dime and with unlimited funds comes an unlimited expression of desire, sexuality, and freedom. A satiric celebration, then, of the glamorous decadence that preceded CVV's era.
VAN VECHTEN, Carl. The Blind Bow-Boy. With a decoration by Robert E. Locher. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1923. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s cream buckram over patterned paper-covered boards, with attractive title label to upper spine. In the dust jacket designed by Locher. A very good or better copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Edges untrimmed, with brief ink gift inscription to front endpaper. A few light marks and dog-eared pages from haphazard cutting of the pages, but bright. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), closed tear along crown, a handful of smaller closed tears and tiny chips to extremities, the white segments of the jacket somewhat grubby, but a surprisingly well-preserved copy overall.
Van Vechten’s modernist dip into decadent 20s Manhattan, featuring an all-motley crew of eccentrics, freaks and oddballs, many of whom based on real-life characters from the author’s own colourful circle. Harold Prewett is thrust into the Big Apple on his dad’s dime and with unlimited funds comes an unlimited expression of desire, sexuality, and freedom. A satiric celebration, then, of the glamorous decadence that preceded CVV's era.
